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The Life of Animals | Leopard Seal | The leopard seal is tall and muscular, with a dark gray back and gray on its belly. Females are slightly larger than the males. The front teeth are sharp as those of other carnivores, but their molars lock together in a way that allows them to sieve krill from the water, so that the seal crabeater seal. The leopard seal lives in the cold waters around Antarctica. Young people are frequently in the north. The leopard seal is a solitary creature, and met in small groups only when it is time to mate.

The leopard seal is bold, powerful and strange. In water, there's a fine line between curiosity and predatory behavior, and can "play" with the penguins did not intend to eat. There are also records of leopard seals attack divers. The leopard seal is only orca among the top predators of the Antarctic. The smaller seals probably eat mostly krill, squid and fish too. Larger leopard seals probably switch to krill prey more significant, including King, Adelie, Rockhopper, Gentoo and Emperor penguins, and, less frequently, other seals as crabeater seal gasket.

Subantarctic islands around the South Georgia, the Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella), the main prey. Other prey includes fish and penguins. Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), Southern Sea Elephant (Mirounga leonina) pups of penguins and other seabirds were in leopard seal faeces were found in small quantities When hunting penguins, leopard seals patrol the waters near the edges of the ice almost completely under water, waiting for birds to reach the sea.

It Previous reports with the leopard seal skins its prey before feeding proved to be false. Lack the teeth needed to cut its prey into manageable pieces, puts his prey from side to side to rip and tear into smaller pieces. The leopard seal is classified as part of the family Phocidae. Its closest relatives are the Ross seal, Weddell seal and crabeater seal, the lobodontine together as the seals are known. The proportion of leopard seals with homologous with one's close relatives lobodontine's seals. Although colors vary between these types of seals, coat color has the same function, the better camouflage from predators and as prey is hiding.